- I wanna talk to Barack Obama the man,
you know, the human being,
you say like one of the things you miss is being anonymous.
You have dreams, some of the most boring dreams
in my opinion, about just walking through the streets
and nobody recognizing you. - Yeah.
- Now, I do believe that you could do that
if you did not roll with a squad,
that's what I think your problem...
You roll with the Secret Service
so I think if you went to like South Africa,
if you walked around in parts of South Africa,
no one would recognize you.
I think if you walked around in parts of maybe Malaysia,
some parts, 'cause I've seen Barack Obamas
in these other, like when I was in Bali,
they have one of their ministers in government
looks exactly like you.
And I remember I got those like, "Oh, why they got Barack
"on the wall?"
And they were like, "No, that's not Barack."
I think you could, you could walk around a lot of countries
if you just left everybody behind.
I think that's what it is.
- No. Yeah.
In all seriousness, I completely agree with you.
There is a attractive nuisance to,
- Yes.
- There's a bustle and suddenly people are with glasses
and they're talking and so immediately everybody
what's the commotion about?
- Yes.Exactly. - And then at that point
you are attached to it.
Unfortunately, I don't have the option of getting rid
of all those folks.
And although I will say that when I'm on a bike,
which Michelle and I have done sometimes,
or even when we're walking, right.
And the Service is pretty far behind us,
we can actually get away with the taking a walk
if there's not a big crowd.
- I think Michelle is too famous though.
You can get away with it.
- Well, that's the point.
Although what she says is, and I've quoted her on this,
she can, you know, tie up her hair, put on some sunglasses
with me I'd have to have a operation on my ears
in order to properly disguise myself so..
(Trevor laughing)
If it's cold and I've got a hoodie or a ski cap
maybe I can, maybe I can do something.
- Maybe you can get away with it.
- Exactly.
- Do you spend a lot of your time online?
Because it's not like you can go out much.
It' not like you are at the mall.
- No.
- Then how do you,
then how do you know so much about everything?
'Cause you, you know a lot about like music,
you're in touch, you know about what's happening.
So if you're not online, do you have like a person
who comes to tell you what's on Twitter?
(Barrack laughing)
- Well, I spend enough time online to figure out
what's going on but for example, I read headlines.
One of the benefits of being president,
at least if you were doing your homework,
while you were president is, you know,
usually most of the time when you look at a headline,
you kind of figure out the context of it.
You don't, you don't have to, you know,
if I read about the war between Azerbaijan and Armenia,
- Yes. - I know the details of that.
I know the players of that so I can skim it, right.
When it comes to music, you know,
Sasha and Malia oftentimes are my eyes and ears, right?
They'll pull in what some of the new tracks are.
They're playing them in the house.
I'll ask them what this is.
- Who have they put you on to?
- I use Shazam, you know, which works surprisingly well.
- Who have they put you onto now?
Who's the latest artist they've put you onto right now?
- Let's see.
Well, you know, Sasha, she goes into the deep cuts.
She gets on SoundCloud, she pulls all kinds of stuff up.
You know, some of it is what you'd expect.
And Brys, you know, the Bryson Tillers, the Lil Uzi Vert
you know, you know, - Okay.
- The stuff that is, you know, to be expected
in her generation.
The flip side, what's fun is
it goes in the opposite direction too, you know?
So I had to explain to them about Joni Mitchell
and I play a few tracks and they go, Oh, okay.
So they're learning some old cuts from their dad as well.
They, they don't, they don't,
they don't adopt any of my dancing styles,
but some of my music, they appreciate.
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